This is a guest post by Indu Priya from TheIdeasHome.
I realized that almost all the top 100 blogs (according to Technorati) have social media presence. They mainly have their profiles on Twitter, Facebook and Stumbleupon.
So today I wanted to write about marketing content on social media sites mainly Twitter, Facebook, Stumbleupon and Digg.
A social media campaign has an inherent viral exposure. If you are using social media sites only as a “link building” resources, then you are limiting your potential.
Here are few changes you can make to your social media campaign that can almost double your results:
1. Content
The success secret to any social media campaign is content. First observe and analyze what kind of content people like.
Twitter: To find out what’s working with Twitter users, go to http://tweetmeme.com/. You can instantly identify the hottest stories on Twitter and can create one.
Digg: Open digg.com and go to the category you belong. You can identify the most popular stories of a category under “Top in [category name]”.
Stumbleupon: If you belong to Internet category, go to http://www.stumbleupon.com/discover/internet/ to find out the most popular stories.
Now that you have got an idea of what kind of content works, you can create one.
2. Networking
It is simple to understand that people follow people with similar interests. These people are on all kinds of social media sites including Delicious, Digg, Stumbleupon, Twitter etc.
Put these two things together.
If my interest is in driving traffic to my site but you’re trying to sell network marketing products to me, it doesn’t matter how many times you ask me, I will simply ignore your message or block you.
So, the logic is to network and share your content to people who belong to your niche.
Make 5 – 10 friends every day in Stumbleupon, Digg, Twitter and Facebook. Start voting the stories of your friends regularly. This is very important. Verify how many people added you as a friend. Add more and more people as friends.
Submit your content and observe how many of them will vote for your content. If the number of votes is less than 30, then you need to add more and more friends. Because you need atleast 30 votes to reach the front page.
Also comment first on the stories you think can reach front page. This way your profile gets more exposure.
No, once you are getting 30 votes consistently for your content, start experimenting with the topics. Observe which kind of topic is getting more number of votes. Write such content in your blog and submit it in the social networking sites.
3. Sharing
Now that you’ve got great content, it is time to market it.
- Share your content to your Twitter followers using su.pr. It will also put your content across 1000’s of Stumbleupon users.
- Share your content to your digg.com friends and encourage them to “digg” the content.
- Make it easy for your Twitter followers to retweet your content.
- Share your content on your Facebook page.
4. Consistency
This is the area most people fail. People subscribe to something because they want to get regular updates. If your daily news paper starts coming only once a week, you’d probably switch to other news paper. If you fail to provide content consistently, your network will fade and your audience numbers will drop.
You also need to understand that not all niches do well in social networking sites. For example, SEO and affiliate marketing related content do not do well in Digg. But, they do well with Stumbleupon audiences. Similarly, technology and web design related stuff do well in Delicious.
Focus on doing one of the above steps better every day and before you know it, you will be getting huge amount of visitors to your site from these sites each and every day.
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Social media is good way to promote since their appearance. It’s more easy nowadays because there is software to submit content into a lot of social media with just one click. Thanks for the nice article.
But anyway, for “content” matter, i just know that 1 topic can be success in one social media but not for another social media.
Most of the tips you mentioned are known to me, but website and it’s feature su.pr is a new for me and I found that website makes syndicating content to StumbleUpon, Facebook, and Twitter very easy and is a way for getting more traffic to our website. Thank you for mentioning about that website. 🙂
My social media traffic has decreased drastically ever since my post-frequency came down. Gotta do something about it.
Very good tips but I am just afraid that I will be too lazy for this social media stuff. A lot of work and, what is the most important, a lot of TIME is necessary to do the things you have described.
After adding bunch of friends I will need to follow their content and I am afraid that reading all those articles to vote for them will take too much time. But I think this could be a way to go for people that can spend all day on promoting their site.
Great tips and ideas – they all require time!! I have to think of my social media time as social time and have fun with it. Otherwise, I get my irritated and think I should be doing something else. Deep breath (breathe in, breathe out) – ahhhh!
I find that Networking is the one important element lacking in many online entrepreneurs website promotion plan. A lot of energy is spent on optimizing web pages and search engine optimization. To succeed online, one must network and communicate with others. You know what they say, the best form of advertising is word of mouth.
These work really well for blogging niche, SEO, and other Internet and marketing-related blogs, but they really don’t work so well for other niches. The reason is that those are the only “niches” that everyone cares about. If you were to try and use the same techniques for a baking blog, you probably wouldn’t yield the same results.
Ultimately, you have to go where your readership is.
Frankly speaking, I am not sure whether your strategy is really helpful to gain huge traffic. At least, according to what I know, it is really a difficult task for most users of social media sites to gain lots of traffic without any efforts.
I have profiles on many social networking sites but I just can’t find the time to apply to building them out without having a negative impact on product creation and development. Is there an app or something that can manage multiple social networking profiles from one location? I find time is sucked away very quickly when I focus on these networks with little results.
That’s some great tips Priya, thanks for sharing! What is your Twitter name by the way?